March 2011 Archives

Events for Wednesday, March 30th - Friday, April 8th 2011**

The Short of It:

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 / 6pm / FREE / Empire St, Floor 3
March Visiting Artist in Residence Lauren Denitzio Open Studio & Zine Release

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Triple Point, Academia, Baylies Band, and Sky Jelly

Thursday, March 31, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores, The Rex Complex, and Railbird

Friday, April 1, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Zenith Arc, Sonic Sandbox, Interplay, and Thomas Castle's X Quintet

Saturday, April 2, 2011 / 4-7pm / FREE
Irish Traditional Music

Saturday, April 2, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Pappyk, O.N.E. Clique, Tem Blessed & Blessed Energy, GlassandSteel, and Phoenyx

Sunday, April 3, 2011 / 10am-2pm / $60 / At AS220's Printshop at the Mercantile Block
*Intro to Silkscreen (Session 1 of 2)
Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Sunday, April 3, 2011 / 3-6pm / $60 / At AS220 Photo's Mercantile Block Space
*Intro to Digital Photo Editing (At the Mercantile Block)
Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Sunday, April 3, 2011 / 4-7pm / FREE
AS220 Gallery Opening Receptions
AS220 Main Gallery: The Michael Jordan Series by Doug Lindsay & New Work by Tony Carneiro
Open Window: New Works by Nagaraj Seshardi
Youth Gallery: AS220 Visuals Group Show
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St): New Paintings by Kim Kazan & sacred/profane by Melody Tuttle
The Project Space Reading Room: When Nothing is Sure ~ Everything Is Possible: An Artist Book Archive Curated by Sarah Clover

Sunday, April 3, 2011 / 8pm / $8
The Empire Revue Providence's premiere variety show

Monday, April 4, 2011-Performance Space & Foo(d) Closed. The Bar at AS220 (now 7 days!) & Cottage Industries (i.e. the Printshop, Labs & AS220 Photo) are open their regular hours!

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 / 6-7pm / FREE / At the Mercantile Block
Cottage Industries Open House
See what we're up to at the Community Printshop, AS220 Photo and the AS220 Labs (including AS220's Fab Lab) and find out how you can get involved. Tour AS220 with Founder and Artistic Director, Bert Crenca

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 / 6-8:30 pm / $6
Life Drawing - Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model!

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 / 7-10pm / $75 / At AS220 Photo's Mercantile Block Space
*Medium Format Photography (Session 1 of 3)
Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Andre Harner, Chris Staniszewski, Jon Stimets, and Valencourt (EP release)

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 / 7-10pm / $50 / At AS220 Labs at the Mercantile Block
*Vinyl Cut Sign and Sticker Making (One Session Workshop)
Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 / 9pm / $7
Cactus Attack, Lac La Belle, and The Denver Boot

Thursday, April 7, 2011 / 7-10pm / $75 / At AS220 Labs at the Mercantile Block
*Intro to Audio Engineering (Session 1 of 2)
Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Thursday, April 7, 2011 / 7-10pm / $100 / At the Paul Krot Darkroom, Empire St Floor 2
*Intermediate Darkroom Printing (Session 1 of 3)
Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Thursday, April 7, 2011 / List-7:30pm, Doors-8pm / $4
Free Speech Thursday at AS220 featuring: Providence Poetry Slam, Feature: Angel Nafis

Friday, April 8, 2011 / 6-10pm / $150 / At AS220's Printshop at the Mercantile Block
*Letterpress Wedding Invitations (Session 1 of 4)
Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Friday, April 8, 2011 / 7:30pm / $6-$10 sliding scale
Benefit Show for the Daughters of Lynn Staria Silvia with: Brain Shivers, Rhythm & Blues Motherfuckers, Woozy, Gila Monster, and more TBA

**All events are at AS220's 115 Empire Street Location on the ground floor, unless otherwise noted.

The last four weeks have been filled with commotion in the studio. Classes! Classes! Classes! Spring is here and we have been busy working hard on projects through out the studio. My class, Graphic Design is working on making their own character vectors from sketches using Adobe Illustrator. Kanema, Alex, Lena and Jen have all created great characters, take a look at our works in progress:

The next few weeks we will be learning how to create flyers, business cards and more! Then we will move on and start working on Adobe Indesign!

-Gaby

Offset Lithography Posters: 2 weeks $75.00
Saturdays, April 9th, 16th: 10am- 2pm
Instructor: Jacque Bidon

Come learn how to run the ABDick 9850 Offset Press - A commercial press capable of creating hundreds of prints in a matter of minutes. This is a brief introduction to offset printing. Come with an 11 x 17 design, one or two colors as a pdf on a usb drive. You will not be able to print on your own after taking this course but it is a great opportunity to learn if you would like to take our more in depth course and produce a poster or simple 11 x 17 inch or smaller project.

Letterpressed Wedding Invitation Workshop: 4 Weeks $150.00
Friday, April 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th, 6-10pm
Instructor: Morgan Calderini

This workshop is designed to give you the skills, space, and tools needed to letterpress your own (or a relative's/friends's/client's) beautiful wedding invitation! The rich colors and inks, fine paper, and embossed type or imagery will surely make a wonderful impression on all invited. You will learn how to ink up and make ready the press, adjust pressure and roller high, register multiple colors / plates, clean and care for the Vandercook No. 4 Letterpress here at the AS220 Community Printshop.

HOT Foil Stamping $25.00
Saturday, April 30th, 2-6pm
Instructor: Kat Cummings

Hot stamping is a straight forward process; 1) A die is mounted and heated, 2) Foil is positioned above the material to be imprinted, 3) A combination of heat, dwell time, pressure and stripping time control the quality of the stamp. Foil stamping is environmentally friendly due to it being a dry process. It does not use solvents or inks and does not create any harmful vapors. This course provides a four hour introduction to using the newest tool at the AS220 Printshop. Participants must attend this workshop in order to be certified to use this equipment. No materials needed for the first class. This is a demonstration based class. If you have a project, feel free to bring it we may use it during the demos.

Advanced Intaglio: Aquatint $120.00
Thursdays, April 14th, 21st, and 28th, 6pm-10pm
Instructor: Agata Michalowska

Previous basic knowledge of Intaglio required. Students will be introduced to aquatint which is the most common method of creating tones in etching, from a very subtle and faint tone to deep darks. An aquatint can be etched into the entire plate (creating various tones or a single one) or to a chosen area. The technique of spit bite aquatint allows a soft, painterly mark. A fine layer of rosin (ground up sap from pine trees) will be applied to a copper plate using a rosin box. The plate is then heated and the grains of rosin adhere to the copper creating a network of dots that act as a resist to the etchant (a ferric chloride bath). The plate is etched around each dot (each grain of rosin) resulting in a rough surface (a tooth) that will hold the ink and print as tone. The longer the plate is exposed to the etchant, the deeper the grooves- and the darker the tone.

Experiments in Monoprint/type $20.00
Last Friday of each Month, April 29th, 6pm-10pm
Instructor: Leigh Waldron Taylor

Join us for some Friday night experiments in the Printshop. Leigh will guide you through a new technique applicable to Monoprints or types. The ink and materials are up to us, you provide the paper and experimental spirit. There will be a demonstration each month followed by time for you to print. We may take a break over at the AS220 Foo(d) for dinner and drinks. Come with an open mind and willingness to explore.

Greetings Winter Worn Wanderers!

Looking for an excuse to get out of your winter rut and back into something wonderful? Seek no further troubadours, this April (and May!) brings a slew of classes, events and other semi-sideshow-esque happenings in AS220's Cottage Industries.


Firstly, it's time once again for our Monthly Cottage Industry Open House, happening next Tuesday, Apr.5 from 6-7pm! Come take a gander at the new photo lab and maybe get a sweet black and white Polariod portrait with your favorite local camera heads! Browse through the printshop and join the ranks of Providence's premier printmakers, or take in a laser cutter demo and get yr geek on in the FabLab! Tasty treats are highly likely, but inspiration is an absolute guarantee! Join in on the fun.



What's that? You say you want to know MORE? Well you're in luck, cause there's LOTS more!

APRIL:

Cottage Industries Open House: Tuesday, April 5 6-7pm FREE

Photo: Digital Photo Editing
Sundays, Apr.3 & 10 3-6pm $60
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Photo: Medium Format Photography
Tuesdays, Apr.5, 12 & 19 7-10pm $75
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FabLab: Vinyl Cutting Workshop
Wednesday, Apr.6 7-10pm $50
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Photo: Intermediate Black and White Darkroom
Thursdays, Apr.7, 14 & 21 7-10pm $100
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FabLab: Intro to Audio Engineering
Thursdays, Apr.7 & 14 7-10pm $75
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Print: Letterpress Wedding Invitation Workshop
Fridays, Apr. 8, 15, 22 & 29 6-10pm $150
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Print: Offset Lithography-Posters
Saturdays, Apr. 9 & 16 10am-2pm $75
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FabLab: Intro to Vector Graphic Design with Inkscape
Tuesday, Apr. 12 7-10pm $50
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Photo: The JOBO and Film Scanning
Wednesdays, Apr.13 & 20 6-9pm $75
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FabLab: Arduino for All
Wednesdays, Apr. 13, 20 & 27 7-10pm $115
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Print: Intro to Letterpress
Wednesdays, Apr.13, 20 & 27 6-10pm $120
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Print: Advanced Intaglio-Aquatint
Thursdays, Apr.14, 21 & 28 6-10pm $120
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FabLab: Intro to the Laser Cutter
Wednesday, Apr.20 7-10pm $70
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Photo/FabLab: Lasercut a Pinhole Camera
Saturdays, Apr.23 & 30 12-4pm $75
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Photo: Alternative Photo Processing Vol.2-Van Dyke Brown
Wednesday, Apr.27 7-10pm $40
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Print: Experiments in Monotype
Friday, Apr.29 6-10pm $20
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Print: Hot Foil Stamping
Saturday, Apr.30 2-6pm $25
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MAY

Cottage Industries Open House: Tuesday, May 3 6-7pm FREE

Print: Intro to Letterpress
Sundays, May 1, 8 & 15 10am-2pm $120
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Photo: Advanced Black and White Darkroom
Mondays, May 2, 9, 16 & 23 7-10pm $175
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FabLab: Advanced Audio Engineering
Thursdays, May 5 & 12 7-10pm $75
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Print: Family Day in the Printshop
Saturday, May 7 2-6pm $FREE
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Photo: Large Format Photography
Saturday, May 7 1-4pm and Fridays, May 13 & 20 7-10pm $150
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Print: Advanced Intaglio-Chine Colle
Mondays, May 9, 16 & 23 6-10pm $120
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FabLab: Arduino and Servo Motor Workshop
Tuesdays, May 10, 17 & 24 7-10pm $100
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Print: Offset Small Publishing Workshop
Mondays, May 10, 17 & 24 and Wednesdays May 12, 19 & 26 $200
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FabLab: Vinyl Cutter Workshop
Wednesday, May 11 7-10pm $50
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Photo: Photographing Your Artwork
Thursdays, May 12 & 19 $85
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FabLab: Advanced Laser Cutter
Saturday, May 14 1-4pm and Tuesday, May 17 7-10pm $90
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Photo: Advanced Digital Printing and Editing
Sundays, May 15 & 22 3-6pm $75
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FabLab: Intro to the FabLab
Thursday, May 19 7-10pm $50
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Print: Experiments in Monotype
Friday, May 27 6-10pm $20
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FabLab/Print: Laser Cut Stamp Making
Date TBD $50
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Happy Spring campers! Now get out there and learn new things, make more art and make us proud!

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 / 6-9pm / Free

At 115 Empire Street's Residential Third Floor Visiting Artist (AIR) Studio

Lauren Denitzio will be releasing issue #2 of her art zine "Get It Together" and selling some of her prints to pay for her travel back to NYC! The zine is based on interviews with artists and self-employed friends in Providence and what keeps them motivated - the zine aspires to inspire them to stay independent and keep pursuing their projects.  You can see more of Lauren's work at her website blackandredeye.com.

"In late 2009 I put out a zine called "Get it Together". My idea was to illustrate mantras and motivational phrases contributed by my friends. Last summer I underwent open heart surgery and though I'm now doing fine, the ordeal only magnified the influence of productivity and mantras in my work, motivating me to create the zine.

I've continued this project at AS220 and have used my connections in town to create a Providence specific issue. While previously living here, my friends had always struck me as such motivated, productive people that had a big influence on my path as an artist and becoming self-employed as an illustrator. I've involved them in terms of contributing small explanations of what makes them so driven in their chosen careers, and other ventures whether it's being artists, musicians, small business owners, the management at BSR, etc. Though the artwork is reproduced in black and white, I treat the originals as their own separate drawing series, which I also present on their own. I've used AS220's facilities to incorporate screen printing into my work more as well."

In Eamon's creative writing class we are inspired by reading several different authors and their work. We focus on literature and/or poetry and talk about what we liked about it. One author that I am inspired by is Willie Perdomo. He talks about his experiences growing up in the hood, from the good to the bad. I like his style of writing and the way he says what is on his mind.

In the poem below he talks about pain and how he deals with it. As if he is writing off his troubles, in hopes that his prayers will not let him down. I feel not only me, but anybody could relate to this piece.

-Rachel Scowcroft

    I sang all night
    And cried all day

    Been waiting' for a
    Storm to come my way

    Drown the tears
    Make soft the pain

    I hope my prayers
    Are not in vain

    -Willie Perdomo

Kelly Phillips has been a Key Member at AS220 Photo for almost a full year now, contributing her time and talents to the Glass Negative Project, as our Digital SLR instructor and as our defacto events photographer. Kelly also volunteers her time as a volunteer for AS220's performance space! She's a real powerhouse and we're proud to support her thesis project and exhibition "Life as it Should Be: Images from Bakersfield," opening this Sunday, Mar.27th from 4-6pm at Providence College, 1 Cunningham Sq (Eaton St. entrance).

*Artist's Statement: *
Life as it Should Be: Images from Bakersfield
By Kelly Phillips

Over the last three years, I have spent a significant amount of time away from my hometown of Bakersfield, California. It is a suburban city, population 400,000, with no downtown high rises. With three major oil refineries, Bakersfield has a unique desert/industrial feel which conflicts with expansive suburban track home developments.

I began photographing my hometown in order to preserve it in my memory; quite simply, this project was born out of homesickness. I wanted my wall to be overwhelmed with Bakersfield. My nostalgia for this undesirable place comes through in the photographs, as does my critical eye on Bakersfield city planning. In one image, the viewer sees my reflection in my bedroom window, while another has the oil fields of Chevron in the distance. The juxtaposition of nostalgia and criticism overlaps with a 'yes, people actually do live here' feel.

These photos are meant to document the extreme suburban growth, visible every time I return home, that creates an uncanny mix of industrial and residential zones. Developments are started, then never finished , leaving bakersfield with whole streets of ghost homes. Fields were plowed, roads were paved, light posts were installed, but sometimes the homes were never built. Houses and shopping centers alike display an eerie monotony of tan stucco. Even churches are not more than corrugated steel boxes with the same tan stucco. It was not until I left Bakersfield, who's motto is "Life As It Should Be," that I realized just how bizarre it actually is.

For this project I have printed 1000 postcards, overwhelming the gallery and the viewer with Bakersfield as I see it - monochromatic, industrial, suburban, vacant. The prints are imperfect, mimicking the dirty landscape of Bakersfield. Black and white enhances the grittiness, and the monochrome, cookie cutter feel of the city. Postcards are nostalgic mementos a tourist sends to loved ones, often displaying images of city pride. My postcards show dirty areas of conflict; Postcards you would never want to receive.

We are incredibly proud of Kelly for the effort she has put into this project and to her work at AS220. See more of Kelly's awesome photography here, and don't miss your chance to see this fantastic exhibition from one of AS220 Photo's own!

Just a reminder about the next three monitor training sessions.

TOMORROW, March 25th, 10am-2pm

Tuesday, April 12th, 6-10pm

Friday, April 29th 10am-2pm

Any one can be a monitor, we will teach you everything you need to know at this session. A Printshop monitor is available from 10am - 10pm, Tuesday through Sunday, to let members in, restock supplies, help with safety and health measures, and offer help or advice when applicable. Monitor Training will cover all aspects of studio maintenance and care as well as answering frequently asked questions that you may be asked while monitoring.

All mediums in the studio will be covered; do not be worried if you are only familiar with one area of the shop. Wear your shop clothes and be ready to help keep our shop looking clean and pristine! Please sign up to attend the monitor training of your choice online in advance. A monitor membership is a three month commitment. Each month we ask you to monitor 12 hours and pay at $25. You can use the shop Tuesday through Sunday from 10am-10pm.

Events for Wednesday, March 23rd - Friday, April 1st 2011*

All events are at AS220's 115 Empire Street Location on the ground floor, unless otherwise noted.

The Short of It:

Thursday, March 24, 2011 / 6-9pm / FREE to watch OR $5 for Basic Kit or $20 for Deluxe Kit / At AS220 Labs at the Mercantile Block
*Make and Break: Open Creative Electronics Workshop

Thursday, March 24, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Treehorn, Hot Minutes, Marq Twain, and Mysteries Of The Deep

Friday, March 25, 2011 / 6-10pm / $25 / At AS220's Printshop at the Mercantile Block
*Experiments in Monotype One-off prints, each one a surprise. Learn to go with the flow! Sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Friday, March 25, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Wicked Hanging Chads, Ron Pacheco Jr & The Seven Below Band, Bixit, and The Telling Tree

Saturday, March 26, 2011 / 12-4pm / $50 / At AS220 Photo's Mercantile Block Space
*Basic Studio Lighting Learn to manipulate light when shooting artwork, objects and people! Sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Saturday, March 26, 2011 / 4-7pm / FREE
Irish Traditional Music

Saturday, March 26, 2011/ 9pm / $6
Bad Art, Almost Blind, Six Star General, and Meccalily

Sunday, March 27, 2011 / 5:15-7pm / FREE
Providence Poetry Slam presents a Writing Workshop - A low-pressure setting for writers to meet and share their work

Sunday, March 27, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Tony Jones & The Cretin 3, Your Momma's Trash, and Vague Perception

Monday, March 28, 2011 -Performance Space & Foo(d) Closed. But the Bar at AS220 & the Printshop, Labs & AS220 Photo are open regular/posted hours

Monday, March 28, 2011 / 6pm / FREE / At AS220 Photo's Mercantile Block Space
AS220 Photo Open Meeting Get an inside look at the photo program at AS220 and meet our instructors, key-members and staff people.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 / 6-8:30pm / $6
Life Drawing - Bring your drawing utensils and paper and sketch from a live model

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 / 9:30pm / $6
Reverend Bastien & The Congregation Of The Traveling Empire, Royal Jelly, and Cosmic Sneeze

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 / 7-10pm / $40 / At the Paul Krot Darkroom, Empire St Floor 2
*Alternative Processes Vol.1: CyanotypeLearn the oldest printing process still in use - its extremely easy, inexpensive and ever so historic! Sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Triple Point, Academia, Baylies Band, and Sky Jelly

Thursday, March 31, 2011 / 6-10pm / $40 / At AS220's Printshop at the Mercantile Block
*T-Shirt and Textile Silkscreening Learn the basics of screen-printing 1-color images on t-shirts and textiles using a photo-emulsion process. Leave with tshirts designed and printed by #1! Sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Thursday, March 31, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores, The Rex Complex, and Railbird

Thursday March 24th, 5:30 p.m. 25 Eagle St. Providence, RI!